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by oceliker 7y ago
Not directly GCS-related, but there was a big Youtube TV outage during the World Cup of last year (I think it was during semi-finals?). Google did apologize, but they only offered a free week of Youtube TV, which they implemented by chargi
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by oceliker 7y ago
I don't know if Green Bldg is my favorite, but I definitely agree that Stata [0] is not a great building. It might look interesting to visitors, but it's super difficult to navigate, and it doesn't have that stature that says
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by oceliker 7y ago
I had no idea! Will go check it out tomorrow.
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by oceliker 7y ago
I know him through the buildings he designed at MIT: Buildings 54, 66, and E15. My favorite fun fact to tell visitors is that building 66 (chemical engineering) is a perfect 30-60-90 triangle.
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by oceliker 7y ago
I usually find the NYTimes comments mostly fine, save for the expected ideological bias. I read your comment, went back to check comments, and couldn't believe my eyes. People think this is mind-reading. > the article is using a ben
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by oceliker 7y ago
I don’t think it provides a great way of testing and refining. The pictures are taken at a very controlled environment in this case; it doesn’t really generalize to CCTV. I don’t disagree with the argument regarding “normalizing” facial rec
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by oceliker 7y ago
I think this is being blown a bit out of proportion. The government definitely has your passport photo in a database. And since this facial recognition is happening only at boarding gates of international flights, it’s totally plausible tha
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by oceliker 7y ago
I’ve been using hot corners for approximately 5 years I think. It works very well. Just configure the top right corner to lock the computer (AFAIK it’s new in Mojave) or start the screensaver with an n-second delay for password prompt (conf
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by oceliker 7y ago
FYI I still see it in the title
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by oceliker 7y ago
To me, this analysis sounds more about the interference with physical objects (like how 2.4ghz can pass through walls easier than 5ghz). It doesn't seem to be about interference with other radio emissions? > 30hz to 230hz is much ea
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by oceliker 7y ago
I’m somewhat confused. I’ll admit that I’m not very familiar with super high frequency radio, but isn’t the difference at least 200 MHz, approximately 10 times larger than the entire FM radio spectrum? Doesn’t out-of-band emission stop bein
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by oceliker 8y ago
Judging by the last couple sentences, I think they’re posting on behalf of the residents, who wouldn’t get much help from the company.
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by oceliker 8y ago
I think if it were delayed, it would still come up from time to time in tech blogs, giving them bad PR, kinda like Duke Nukem Forever. If they announce that it’s cancelled, they take a bad hit now, but they also have indefinite time to work
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by oceliker 8y ago
I use vim. I do map Esc to caps lock, but it’s muscle memory to reach for Esc at this point, so it’s still difficult to justify the touch bar. Thankfully I use a Macbook (not Air, not Pro), which I (affectionately) call the SSH machine.
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by oceliker 8y ago
> For the $1000 it costs for a faster laptop, work gets many thousands of dollars back due to more efficient development. In that case, why are you looking for a “reasonably priced” laptop? The Apple tax is indeed 50% or more, but it sho
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by oceliker 8y ago
Isn't it the exact opposite actually? (Sorry if I'm missing sarcasm) Here I am discussing how her name is spelled, instead of her actual ideas in the field...
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by oceliker 8y ago
Great read. Somewhat of an off-topic question, but here goes: > Watkins wanted her pen name to be spelled in lowercase to shift the attention from her identity to her ideas. I’m sure what I’m about to say has been discussed before — but
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by oceliker 8y ago
I think the disturbing precedent would be a large multinational US company disregarding the laws of a sovereign country. Then again, I guess that wouldn’t be “setting a precedent” after all. As much as I disagree with the Saudi government,
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by oceliker 8y ago
I agree the mail thing is not great... but you’re saying that of the 600 employees who were laid off, not a single one of them will become disgruntled if they had a good work environment? I too despise HR practices in some instances, but I’
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by oceliker 8y ago
Turkish is also mostly "WYRIWYP". We like to say that it's pronounced as it is written. As a rule, there are no exceptions in pronunciation, but there are some exceptions to that rule. :) Dialects within the country and in Cy
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by oceliker 8y ago
For iPhones you can set a full screen “zoom” with low light filter on. It’s under Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Zoom. Set the filter to Low Light, then turn on zoom, then double tap with three fingers to zoom out all the
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by oceliker 8y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but regarding automatic tracking for speeding, there was a system recently put in place on Turkish highways. Toll roads have booths at each entry and exit — so they can run plate recognition and fine you if your average
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by oceliker 9y ago
They gave a “space pirate certificate” to Matt Damon at commencement 2016.
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by oceliker 10y ago
I realize this is somewhat anecdotal, but still... For MIT EECS (largest dep't on campus; ~700 PhD students) there's no Masters-only people (except MEng students who continue for a 5th year from undergrad). The department only acc
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by oceliker 10y ago
The updated version does claim that they reached out before DMCA, but something still feels wrong... That is why I put quotes on "clarified" -- I don't think it really qualifies as clarification. I'm more of the belief t
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by oceliker 10y ago
The original version of the article said "Initially we were taken aback and confused. We knew there must be some mistake, so we quickly sent you a DMCA takedown requests and waited patiently." They "clarified" it after a
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Response from MIT to the NYTimes article about Suzanne Corkin(bcs.mit.edu)
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by oceliker 10y ago
They are undergraduates at the EECS department.
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by oceliker 10y ago
Fibonacci approach can still be used for pretty much any number. 37 = 3 + 13 + 21 Find equivalents in series 3->5, 13->21, 21->34 Add up: 5+21+34 = 60
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by oceliker 10y ago
We ran a test for one of the problem sets in a course I was TAing. Raw vote counts did follow Benford's law in 2000 US presidential elections. We did not portray it as a tool to detect or disprove fraud, however.

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